Amanda M Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7546300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda M Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda M |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4507-337X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Effectiveness of Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapies by Sex
Acting Up and Pushing Back
The production, sale, and consumption of alcohol remains highly gendered, and although the craft beer sector has positioned itself as prioritizing progressive values, recent studies indicate that women are still excluded from the craft beer sector. This article presents an analysis of qualitative interviews with women working in various roles in the UK craft beer sector and explores the way in which they report experiences of gender inequality an…
UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing
This commentary about alcohol marketing regulation in the UK draws on a conference held by the Institute of Alcohol Studies, highlighting a need for policy interventions to prevent harm and improve public health. Hazardous and harmful alcohol use is associated with many health conditions, wider social consequences, and harms to others. Following no improvement in alcohol mortality rates in the past decade, 2020 saw alcohol-specific deaths rise to…
Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use
There has been recent UK media attention on the global impact of the cocaine trade and the morality of personal use of cocaine powder. In this study we investigated whether people who use cocaine engage in moral disengagement (MD) strategies to reduce anticipated guilt associated with use. Participants read text describing the impact of the global cocaine market on others and completed a range of measures including assessments of substance use, M…
Representation of adverse childhood experiences is associated with lower public stigma towards people who use drugs
Background Stigmatising attitudes towards people who use drugs are pervasive amongst the public. We investigated whether public stigma was affected by presentation of a history of adversity, and how substance use was described.Methods A cross-sectional online study using a convenience sample, with a randomised 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design. Participants read one of eight randomly presented vignettes that described a fictional case history of substan…
Less than human
Purpose Stigma reduction is an important public health challenge because of the large morbidity and mortality associated with some forms of substance use. Extreme stigma can lead to dehumanisation of target groups, who are ascribed with lesser humanity. The authors examined whether there was blatant and subtle dehumanisation of people who use heroin, and if these were associated with levels of support for non-discriminatory drug policy. Design/me…
Performance and image enhancing drug interventions aimed at increasing knowledge among healthcare professionals (HCP)
Online test purchased new psychoactive substances in 5 different European countries
Young peoples’ perspective on the portrayal of alcohol and drinking on television
This article presents findings of focus groups (n = 15) with young people (n = 114) which aimed to explore their views, experiences and interpretations of the ways in which alcohol and drinking are portrayed on television. Young people showed a sophisticated level of awareness of alcohol and its use on television and were adept at deconstructing the alcohol-related messages presented. Participants were undecided as to whether they believed televi…
The gendering of alcohol in consumer magazines
Despite evidence suggesting some convergence between the drinking practices of men and women in recent years, alcohol-related behaviour appears to remain significantly gendered in the UK, with males being more likely to drink alcohol and to drink greater quantities of alcohol than females for instance. The authors of this paper view alcohol-related behaviour as one particular sphere of practice through which gender may be performed and normative …
Reducing harm in drinking environments
The gendering of alcohol in consumer magazines
Despite evidence suggesting some convergence between the drinking practices of men and women in recent years, alcohol-related behaviour appears to remain significantly gendered in the UK, with males being more likely to drink alcohol and to drink greater quantities of alcohol than females for instance. The authors of this paper view alcohol-related behaviour as one particular sphere of practice through which gender may be performed and normative …
Reducing harm in drinking environments
Young peoples’ perspective on the portrayal of alcohol and drinking on television
This article presents findings of focus groups (n = 15) with young people (n = 114) which aimed to explore their views, experiences and interpretations of the ways in which alcohol and drinking are portrayed on television. Young people showed a sophisticated level of awareness of alcohol and its use on television and were adept at deconstructing the alcohol-related messages presented. Participants were undecided as to whether they believed televi…
The gendering of alcohol in consumer magazines
Despite evidence suggesting some convergence between the drinking practices of men and women in recent years, alcohol-related behaviour appears to remain significantly gendered in the UK, with males being more likely to drink alcohol and to drink greater quantities of alcohol than females for instance. The authors of this paper view alcohol-related behaviour as one particular sphere of practice through which gender may be performed and normative …
Online test purchased new psychoactive substances in 5 different European countries
Representation of adverse childhood experiences is associated with lower public stigma towards people who use drugs
Background Stigmatising attitudes towards people who use drugs are pervasive amongst the public. We investigated whether public stigma was affected by presentation of a history of adversity, and how substance use was described.Methods A cross-sectional online study using a convenience sample, with a randomised 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design. Participants read one of eight randomly presented vignettes that described a fictional case history of substan…
Less than human
Purpose Stigma reduction is an important public health challenge because of the large morbidity and mortality associated with some forms of substance use. Extreme stigma can lead to dehumanisation of target groups, who are ascribed with lesser humanity. The authors examined whether there was blatant and subtle dehumanisation of people who use heroin, and if these were associated with levels of support for non-discriminatory drug policy. Design/me…
Performance and image enhancing drug interventions aimed at increasing knowledge among healthcare professionals (HCP)
Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use
There has been recent UK media attention on the global impact of the cocaine trade and the morality of personal use of cocaine powder. In this study we investigated whether people who use cocaine engage in moral disengagement (MD) strategies to reduce anticipated guilt associated with use. Participants read text describing the impact of the global cocaine market on others and completed a range of measures including assessments of substance use, M…
UK alcohol marketing regulation is failing
This commentary about alcohol marketing regulation in the UK draws on a conference held by the Institute of Alcohol Studies, highlighting a need for policy interventions to prevent harm and improve public health. Hazardous and harmful alcohol use is associated with many health conditions, wider social consequences, and harms to others. Following no improvement in alcohol mortality rates in the past decade, 2020 saw alcohol-specific deaths rise to…
Effectiveness of Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapies by Sex
Acting Up and Pushing Back
The production, sale, and consumption of alcohol remains highly gendered, and although the craft beer sector has positioned itself as prioritizing progressive values, recent studies indicate that women are still excluded from the craft beer sector. This article presents an analysis of qualitative interviews with women working in various roles in the UK craft beer sector and explores the way in which they report experiences of gender inequality an…
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychological intervention (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)